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  1. Oct 26, 2022 · Amy Loughren (Chastain) is a nurse at an average New Jersey hospital, trying to balance being a single mother with her high-stress job. This gets even harder when she’s diagnosed with a cardiac condition that could kill her if she doesn’t get a heart transplant in time.

  2. Based on Charles Graeber’s book The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness and Murder, the film shies away from being a portrait of Cullen - who was bullied mercilessly both as a child and...

    • Are Amy Loughren and Charlie Cullen Real people?
    • What About The Identity of The Victims?
    • How Did Loughren Catch Cullen?
    • Did He Really Murder That Many people?
    • Did Loughren Really Suffer from A Life-Threatening Heart condition?
    • Where Is Cullen Now?

    They absolutely are. The Good Nurse is told from the perspective of Loughren, a single mother working night shifts as a nurse while struggling with a life-threatening heart condition. Already stretched to her physical and emotional limits by her demanding job, she soon becomes suspicious of her new coworker and friend Cullen after a series of myste...

    While Loughren and Cullen's real names and story were used in the movie along with the real names of the detectives (played by Noah Emmerich and Nnamdi Asomugha), all of the victims and their families are fictionalized. Screenwriter Krysty Wilson-Cairns told Vanity Fairshe changed all the names so as not to "revictimize them. We weren't in those ro...

    Just as it happens in the movie, Loughren started to become suspicious that Cullen may be behind the mysterious deaths happening to her patients. It only took her six months to stop a 16-year killing spree. She eventually became a confidential informant to help police gain enough evidence to arrest Cullen in 2003. That scene where she wears a wire ...

    During the film's climactic third act scene, Loughren gets him to confess to 29 murders — and he eventually told investigators that number is actually 40. But it's even worse than that. Graeber, the author of the book, discovered through his own investigation that Cullen told detectives he "dosed" three to four people a week and didn't follow up to...

    Catching a serial killer while working a full-time job as a night-duty nurse (and also raising kids as a single mother) is hard enough. But Loughren was also risking her life every day by not getting the heart transplant she desperately needed — because she was trying to wait until her health insurance kicked in first. Loughren really was suffering...

    Still behind bars — for a long, long time. Cullen is currently serving one of his many life sentencesat New Jersey State Prison, and the earliest possible parole date would be June 10, 2388, according to the Department of Corrections. The Good Nurseis now playing in select theaters and begins streaming Oct. 26 on Netflix. Want more movie news? Sign...

    • Sydney Bucksbaum
    • 11 min
  3. Oct 28, 2022 · The Good Nurse is a strong crime drama that excels, yet it falls short as a crime thriller. The narrative does very little to analyze the mind of the serial murderer outside of exploring Amy’s background and perspective.

    • Sarah Almeida
  4. Oct 27, 2022 · This true-crime tale, starring Eddie Redmayne and Jessica Chastain, dramatizes the story of Charles Cullen, a nurse who was discovered to be a serial killer.

    • Tobias Lindholm
    • 6 min
  5. Oct 26, 2022 · But while Tobias Lindholm's The Good Nurse is definitely not short on psychological tension, this isn't your typical sensationalist murder mystery fare.

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